The Politics of (In)security: Reconstructing African-Asian Relations, Citizenship and Community in Post-Expulsion Uganda.

African-Asian Relations and South-Southism;Post-Cold War State Sovereignty;Governance;and Citizenship in Africa;Ugandan Asian Expulsion and Asian Minorities in East Africa;Flexible Migrants in Africa;Racialized Insecurity and Securitization Practices;Migration;Race;Ethnicity;Gender;and Sexuality;African Studies;Anthropology and Archaeology;History (General);South Asian Languages and Cultures;Women"s and Gender Studies;Social Sciences;Anthropology

Hundle, Anneeth KaurDiouf, Mamadou ;

University of Michigan

关键词: African-Asian Relations and South-Southism;    Post-Cold War State Sovereignty;    Governance;    and Citizenship in Africa;    Ugandan Asian Expulsion and Asian Minorities in East Africa;    Flexible Migrants in Africa;    Racialized Insecurity and Securitization Practices;    Migration;    Race;    Ethnicity;    Gender;    and Sexuality;    African Studies;    Anthropology and Archaeology;    History (General);    South Asian Languages and Cultures;    Women";    s and Gender Studies;    Social Sciences;    Anthropology;   

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【 摘 要 】

This dissertation explores the dynamics of geopolitical South-Southism and thepossibilities and limits of renewed African-Asian relationships in contemporary Uganda.More specifically, I analyze processes of post-1990s Ugandan Asian and South Asianmigration to Uganda and the re-integration of a South Asian racialized minority inPresident Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) national order.First, I demonstrate that contemporary Uganda is a historically and culturally specificspace characterized by the intersection of Ugandan Asians who remained in the countryafter former President Idi Amin’s 1972 expulsion decree, Ugandan Asian returnees, andnew economic migrants from the South Asian sub-continent. Through ethnographic andhistorical method, I utilize the analytics of citizenship, sovereignty, and security (as wellas political economy, race, culture ethnicity, gender, and sexuality) to explore the livedexperiences of Ugandan Asians who remained, Ugandan Asian ;;returnees,” and newSouth Asian migrants in Kampala. Oral history interviews with Ugandan Asians whoremained in Idi Amin’s regime (1972-1979), research at the Uganda InvestmentAuthority (UIA) in Kampala, ethnographic analysis of the politics of South Asiancommunity-building, and an examination of the practices of Ugandan African and SouthAsian women as they respond to the increasing vulnerability of Indian women and theirbodies—all of this material reveals historical transformations in South Asian inclusionand exclusion in Uganda and the multiple registers of racialized insecurity within whichUgandan Asians and new South Asian migrants are embedded. While the post-1990sstate recognizes, legitimates, and manages South Asian presence in the country byconstructing Ugandan Asians and South Asian migrants as ;;investors,” I show that SouthAsian women are rather invisible and unrecognized by emerging modes of neoliberaleconomic and security-oriented global and state governance. Furthermore, I argue thatUgandan Asians and South Asian migrants are engaged in a number of flexiblesecuritization practices both in Uganda and in transnational contexts. These flexiblesecuritization practices allow them to respond to the historical politics of racializedinsecurity by enhancing their sense of personal, family, and community-based security.